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Ovolab Phlink is a perfect solution for businesses and home offices, as well as for families and students!
Check out Phlink's cool features below. |
| Who's calling? |
| Ovolab Phlink, combined with the Ovolab Telephone Adapter, can answer telephone calls and identify the caller using Caller ID and Apple's Address Book. |
| After answering a call, Ovolab Phlink records a message and stores it on your Mac for later retrieval. |
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| Telephone Adapter |
The Ovolab Telephone Adapter is a small USB device which plugs into one of your Mac's USB ports on one side, and to an analog telephone cable on the other side.
Using the Telephone Adapter, Ovolab Phlink can interface with the telephone line. It also recognizes Caller ID if such service is available from your telephone company. Caller ID has been successfully tested in the US, in Europe (including UK, France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, the Netherlands), in Australia, in Singapore and is being tested in other countries.
If you have an ISDN phone line, you can still use the Ovolab Telephone Adapter by plugging it into your terminal adapter (TA). Some telephone companies provide a TA as part of their service, check with your local telephone company for details. In general, if you can use any plain, non-ISDN, telephone on your line, you can also use the Ovolab Telephone Adapter.
The Ovolab Telephone Adapter also works with Vonage devices and other IP-based services which provide an analog telephone connection. |
| High fidelity |
Phlink provides a crystal-clear audio connection to your telephone line, at a much higher quality than other products or answering machines can offer.
Hear for yourself by downloading a sample Phlink recording, either uncompressed (AIFF) or in AAC format. |
| System Requirements |
Ovolab Phlink requires Mac OS X 10.2 or later and the Ovolab Telephone Adapter (included in the package).
The Ovolab Telephone Adapter is a USB device and therefore requires a Macintosh with at least one free USB port.
Multiline use requires one telephone adapter per phone line.
Caller ID requires activation of the service with your telephone company.
Call forwarding requires hookflash-based support in your PBX or similar service from your telephone company.
Fax features require either Mac OS X 10.3 or later, or select third-party fax software under Mac OS X 10.2. |
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* OWC is currently shipping software Version 3.6.1 with full registration code for current version 4.0.3
Free upgrade to the current version available at Ovolab.com
http://www.ovolab.com/phlink/upgrade/
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| More than an answering machine. |
| Ovolab Phlink lets you label and write your own notes next to each call, as well as sort and search through them. Using smart call lists, you can choose which calls to display - all missed calls, calls received in the last week, and more! |
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| Take control. |
But the real power of Ovolab Phlink is what it can do while the call is in progress. It will silently listen to any keys the caller presses on the telephone keypad, and perform actions based on the digits that are typed.
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 Therefore, you can set Phlink to play a greeting which presents a menu of options, and allow the caller to choose by pressing a number. The menu can be customized for each caller, thanks to Caller ID.
You can set Phlink to play a confidential message when a secret code is pressed. Or it can provide information by looking it up on the web: ask it a stock quote, the status of a shipment, weather forecasts, and more!
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But Phlink is not limited to playing prerecorded messages. You can run any AppleScript, or launch any application, by pressing keys on your telephone's keypad - from any place in the world. Take a video snapshot and send it by email, turn filesharing on or off, restart a server. The possibilities are endless.
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| Scripts can also send audio feedback to the caller by speaking text - using Mac OS X's speech synthesis, - in addition to playing back prerecorded sounds. |
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The ultimate message center, on your Mac.
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 Enter the power of Ovolab Phlink. Then, enhance it with your own scripts.
It can call you on your cell phone when your boss calls. Or when an important client leaves a message. It can greet callers with personalized messages. It can add that professional touch to your phone line, with multiple voice mailboxes, high-quality audio, call forwarding and fax detection.
Even handle multiple phone lines at once, by simply connecting multiple telephone adapters.
And if the phone line and Phlink's adapter are not connected to your Mac, you will still be able to receive pop-up notifications of incoming calls over the network! |
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| Top features |
- Play custom greetings to known callers, based on their caller ID
- Automatically receive your voicemail by email
- Store all voice messages on your Mac
- Create multiple voice mailboxes
- Announce callers through the Mac's speakers
- Create fully automated tone-driven menus
- Share a single line for fax and voice calls
- Integrates with pagesender for receiving faxes on your Mac
- Create scripts that look up information on the Internet and read it to the caller over the phone
- Trigger actions based on who is calling
- Log incoming calls based on caller ID information
- Schedule activation and greetings based on the time of the day
Ovolab Phlink takes full advantage of Mac OS X technologies:
- Speech synthesis to provide feedback to the caller
- Address Book to identify known callers
- AppleScript for automating actions
- QuickTime to compress and store recordings
- Rendezvous to automatically notify other Macs of incoming calls over the local network
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| The many different uses of Ovolab Phlink. |
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| Always in touch. |
Store all voicemail messages on your Mac, receive them by email when you're away. If you're not in the office, but you are waiting for an important call, tell Phlink to take a message and email it to you, to alert you on your mobile phone, and more!
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| Auto attendant. |
Phlink can answer calls in a timely and professional manner, 24 hours a day. Plus, it can announce callers - you can even tell it to announce specific callers only, while redirecting others to voicemail.
Phlink is also able to transfer and forward* calls to other extensions or phone numbers.
Phlink can even display caller ID and additional caller information on other Macs on the local network!
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| Information center. |
Create your own phone trees that callers navigate by pressing keys on the telephone keypad.
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| Voice recorder. |
Set it up to answer calls from your cell phone only, and record the message on your Mac. Just call and dictate - Phlink is ready to take notes while you're on the road.
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| Dynamic information. |
Phlink can look up information on the Internet or in a database: the status of an order, weather forecasts for a given city, stock quotes, and more. Once the relevant piece of information has been retrieved through a script, Phlink will play it over the phone using speech synthesis technology.
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| Log calls. |
Log all incoming calls with detailed information on who called, when, for how long and more.
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| Sleepsaver. |
No more sleepless nights for system administrators asked to restart server processes at 3 am. Just call the server, type in a code, launch a script that restarts the process
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| At Home: |
| Advanced answering machine. |
Greet your friends with personalized greetings, store voicemail on your Mac: Phlink will forward it to you by email when you're away. Plus, create separate voice mailboxes for each member of the family! Ovolab Phlink is your new answering machine
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| A personal touch. |
Provide customized information to your friends - and only to them. Tell your closest friends how they can reach you, and tell the others you're unreachable. Callers can navigate through prerecorded messages by simply pressing keys on the telephone keypad.
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| Announce callers. |
When the phone rings, have your Mac tell you who is calling by speaking the name of the caller, or use customized ringtones. You can even tell Phlink to automatically look up the caller's name on the Internet!
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| Your link to online information. |
Ask Phlink to dynamically look up information on the Internet, such as traffic information, news headlines, weather forecasts for a given city, stock quotes, and more. Phlink will speak it to you over the phone
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| Lights, camera, action. |
Control your X-10 home automation system over the phone. Turn on the lights. Open the gate. Take a camera snapshot and send it to yourself by email
* some features may require support from the phone company and/or from a PBX.
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